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Workshop in Bedwas, South Wales 28th June 2025 to sign up email solidaritycymru@gmail.com When the Solidarity Park monument project began, we made a well-thought-out pitch to the local council in Malgrat de Mar, Catalunya. While everything in the pitch happened, the key element was our promise to engage both the international and local community and … Continue reading All different but all the same, how Mini-Brigadistas can help ‘bring solidarity home’.

By Rob MacDonald The oldest known traditional sculpture, the "Woman from Willendorf," is estimated to be around 29,500 years old. This figurine, along with many others from that era, reflects an early human fascination with depicting the human form. While its exact cultural significance remains unclear, some speculate that these sculptures may have represented fertility … Continue reading The Power of Stone Sculpture 

Access, Freedom and Organisation in the arts Creative struggle for revolutionary change. By Rob MacDonald – Originally written for BadArt Magazine. The establishment often peddles an illusion of artists as excessive, impractical, spoilt dilettantes. They took mind-altering absinthe in 1920s Paris. They danced naked around fires in the ’60s, or threw TVs from hotel windows … Continue reading Access, Freedom and Organisation in the arts

Art is the struggle to be a human being. It's the moment that we are faced with a problem and have to be creative to solve it. Art is work, it's the labour of our existence. Everybody is an artist.  My central art work is to collaborate with artists Internationally against the barriers created by … Continue reading Support outa-space on Patreon,

This is an Interview of Rob MacDonald by Greek Marxist newspaper Xekinima Original article in Greek During the BLM movement we saw the demolition of monuments of well-known slave traders and exploiters, such as the Statue of the slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol. What kind of symbolism does the act of demolishing these monuments … Continue reading Pulling down the statues of oppression.

An International arts and class struggle broadcast. Nobody can deny the world is in crisis. Socially, politically and environmentally things are being turned upside down. So what will the response of humanity be? Will we evolve or crash out? There are two important players in this game of humanity's future. One is the workers' movement … Continue reading Outa-space podcast station launched towards earth.

Today is Lenin's 150 birthday; I want to celebrate his unique role in the revolutionary socialist movement. That can only be done by attempting to understand the ideas he fought for. There are though more ways than one in grasping what he stood for and this is a story about that. 22/4/20 Background In October … Continue reading Happy Birthday Mr Lenin

July- 2019, Stockholm - On July 8, 1973, in Uruguay, Walter Medina, 16 years old, was murdered by police. He was shot in the back when in protest he was painting "constitution popular" on a wall. Walter Medina was politically active, wrote poetry, and played theatre. Over five days in the streets of Stockholm Rob carved … Continue reading Murdered for Painting